Warning, I’m about to get on my mild OCD soapbox again. Too many development tools expect to get the privilege of a config file in the root directory of my projects. Many of them don’t even allow it to be a hidden file—they just require a fully unhidden “tool.yml” file sitting right there in the root of your project. Stop it. Please. Linux HOME Directory Link to heading Once upon a time this was a serious problem for organizing files in the Linux HOME directory too. Tools thought way too much of themselves and added files, directories, etc. to your HOME folder. A lot of them still do!
  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    2 days ago

    I don’t mind this problem so much but what does drive me crazy with Docker images is that oftentimes all those crazy top level files are included in the Docker image (for no reason). I’ve even seen .git/ in Docker images.

    I prefer the Dockerfile itself to be at the top level but it feels like no one wants to keep their layers clean. But writing Dockerfile syntax is an art form in itself that I probably shouldn’t continue rambling about here.